Display device



' Oct. 20, 1931. s, slLBERsTElN 1,827,803

DISPLAY. DEVICE Filed Aug. 14, 1950 5zvemoz r a a I 1 Fig. 7 is a viewl Patented Get. 20, 1931 "FAT synivnY s. sILBERsTEm, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK i DISPLAY nnvrcn .App1icationfi1edAugnst 14,1939. Serial No.47i5',1 i8. f

" This invention relatesto cardboard display devices forsupp o'rting boxes contain ing cigars or any other articles.

1 One object of the invention'is to provide an improved'collapsible display device for supporting a box.

" Another ob 'ect of the invention is to pro-" vide a display device having improved means for holding open the cover 'of'a box supported I on the device. V A further object of the invention is to provide a display device of the typementioned having comparativelyfew and simple parts and which is inexpensive to manufacture and assemble, compact and convenient to ship, easy to set up, and rugged and reliable in use.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds. I i

With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred I -embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustrated on the annexed drawings, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In the drawings: Figu the base of the device is constructed. j

Fig. 2 is a topplan view of said base in set up position.- 1 H Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of a box coverv holding member.

re 1 is aplan view of a blank of which I Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line 44 of Fig. 3. r I v Fig. 5 is a'bottom view of the base in collapsed position.

T Fig. 6 is a view in side elevation of the complete display device supporting a box in open position thereof. 4 'n front elevation thereof. Fig. Sis a fragmentaryplan view of the base showing a modification'of a flap structure thereof. v

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary view in side elevation thereof, showing the flap structure in assembled position.

The advantages of the invention as here outlined are best realized when all of its features and instrumentalities are combined in one and the same structure, but, usefuld'evices may be produced}embodying less than the whole.

"It will be obvious to those skilled inthe art to which this invention ap'pertains, that the same may be incorporated in several different constructions. The accompanying drawings, therefore, are submitted merely as showing the preferred exemplificationof the invention. v

Referring in detail to the drawings,10,d e-' notes a blankv of which the base of the display device may be constructed. "This blank may be made of cardboard or any other suitable material within the principle of ,theinvention. The blank has a plurality of vertical score lines 11 and12 defining a front wall section 13, side walls 14. and end flap sections 15, though the latter may lloeconsidered to constitute collectively a rear "wall structure.

The end flap sections 15 may be'higher than the front wall section 13, andthe side wall 7 sections 14. may. be recessed at'16. These recesses'may be of such a character to form upward projecting tongues 17 on the flap sections 15. Adjacent to the section 13 may be inclined edge portions 18. Flaps 19' may also be provided, if desired, by score lines20 H r I extending preferably at an acute angle "with the horizontal and downward toward the tire arrangement being similar to a trapezoid.

The said flaps 15 overlap or lie flat against each other, and may be 'detachably or permanently secured together by mechanical -fas-.

teners' orby-adhesive in any well known manner. The fiaps 'l 9 may lie in a horizontal plane.- i i i This base 22may be readily collapsed into the position of Fig. 5, one of the side walls being bent upon the score line 21.

Adapted to be removably slidingly engaged with the tongues 17 is a channeled element 23 which is made of any suitable stiff material preferably'metal. This element may have longitudinally extending flanges 24 and adapted to receive and engage the said tongues 17. In this manner the said element i may hold together the flaps 15, or the latter may be otherwise interengaged as above stated. At the upper end of said element is a downward extending hook 25 to detachably engage a cover 26 of a box 27.

The said box 27 which may be of any suitable type,.shape, or construction, may be made of cardboard or of the usual wood structure as in the case of cigar boxes The bottom of the box is rested on the edges presented by the crease lines 20, and the flaps 19 may afford additional support to the box especially due to the resilience of the paper which may be quite heavy, Thefront wall of the box may restagainst the edges 18, and thus the box is held in an inclined position and adequately holding it open and in display position. If

the display device to be collapsed, the box K 27 is easily removed, and then the element 23 is disengaged after which. the base may collapsed as in Fig. 5.. v v

' In Figs. 8 and 9 is shown a modification of the invention in which the flaps 19a may have movable supporting flaplets 2.9 at the ends thereof a-djacentto the front wall of the device. These flaplets may have their inner edge portions 30 cut out of the side walls of the device as shown at3l toyaflord sufficient abutment against the side walls. The score lines. 32 of the flaplets may. be so ar rangedthat the edges 33 of the flaplets abut the side walls in such a manner as tobe re: tainedin downward extending position due to the inclination or convergence of said .side walls. I

It will be appreciated that various changes and modifications may be made in the device as shown in the drawings, and that the same is submitted in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense, thescope of the invention being defined in the following claims.

I claim:

- 1. A cardboard display device for supporting boxes having covers thereon, said device including a continuous wall structure having rear upright end fiaps which are adapted for interengagement, said end flaps having verticalv portions projecting from the upper edges thereof, and a member slid ably engaged with said projections, said member having means to engagethe cover of the box and hold it open.

2. A display device for boxes having covers, said device including a wall structure the end portions of which are at the rear of the device, said end portions being secured together and having,; overlapping upward projecting tongues, and an element having one enddetachab-ly engaged with both of said tongues'and having"means at other end thereofremovably engagedwith the cover of a box'suported on said wall to hold the cover open. I I V r '3. A display device consisting of cardboard and formed-of a blank having a plurality of substantially parallel score lines forming endfiaps and intermediate sections, allfoldableinto a continuous polygonal wall structure to support a box thereon, (and with the said end flaps lying flat against each other, said end flaps having upward prcejcting tongues similarly disposed,- and a :metallic channel member slidably engaging said tongues for suport of the member, and whereby the end flaps are held together, said member having a downwardly bent portion to engage an'upper edge of the coverof the box for holding it open.

4. A cardboard. display device for sup porting. a box, said device including acne piece continuous wall structure including a front and sidewalls, and portions uniting at the rear to form a rearwall, and means atthe rear projecting upward to support the cover including overlapping: upward extending in tegral projections from said portions, said projections being secured together. j

5. Acardboard display device including a continuous wall structure comprising a front wall and sidewalls converging toward the rear of the device, said "side-walls being. downwardly recessed at the upper edges thereof at an acute angle with the horizontal to support a boxthereon at an inclination, said side walls having flaps extending along said recesses to afiord additional support for the box, said flaps having end tongue portions adjacent to the-front of: device, said tongue portions being downwardly folded to abut the side walls and support said flaps, the

fold lines of said tongue, portions .being formed at acute angles to said side walls, the tongue portions being retained in downward extending position due to the convergence of said side walls. 7 p 1 In testimony wherof I afiix my signature.

SYDNEY G. SILBERSTEIN. 

